I am extracting keyword and definition pairs from a large html document with HTML::Treebuilder and HTML::Element. After parsing the html string and dumping nodes, I find that the <br/> tag is missing.

How could I prevent that>? 

    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('<>&');

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Part of the HTML-string input:

    <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>

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And the resulting output:

    <i>adv.</i><b>1</b> <span lang="pt">maldosamente</span><b>2</b> <s
+pan lang="pt">maliciosamente</span><b>3</b> <span lang="pt">intencion
+almente</span>

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In reply to Losing <br/> tags after parsing with HTML::TreeBuilder by Markismus

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