use HTML::TreeBuilder 5 -weak;
    my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
    
    # HTML given is read from a file in UTF-8 format. Using parse_file returns garbled characters.
    my $html = shift; 
    
    # The next 2 lines are added to see whether it would impact losing <br/> tags
    $tree->no_space_compacting(1); 
    $tree->ignore_unknown(0);
    $tree->parse( $html );
    $tree->eof();
    ...
    ...
    $Definition = $DefinitionNode->as_HTML('<>&'); 

##</code><code>##

    <i>adv.</i><br/><b>1</b> <span lang="pt">maldosamente</span><br/><b>2</b> <span lang="pt">maliciosamente</span><br/><b>3</b> <span lang="pt">intencionalmente</span>

##</code><code>##

    <i>adv.</i><b>1</b> <span lang="pt">maldosamente</span><b>2</b> <span lang="pt">maliciosamente</span><b>3</b> <span lang="pt">intencionalmente</span>