What version of Perl and HTML::TreeBuilder are you using?

I can't reproduce the reported behaviour. Here's a standalone example: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use HTML::TreeBuilder 5 -weak;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
my $content = join "\n", <DATA>;
    
$tree->no_space_compacting(1); 
$tree->ignore_unknown(0);
$tree->parse($content);
$tree->eof();
print $tree->as_HTML('<>&');

__DATA__
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<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>
</body></html>

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The output on my machine: 

<html><head></head><body><i>adv.</i><br /><b>1</b> <span lang="pt">mal
+dosamente</span><br /><b>2</b> <span lang="pt">maliciosamente</span><
+br /><b>3</b> <span lang="pt">intencionalmente</span></body></html>

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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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

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