w3c advise using <br> in HTML4.01 and not <br /> (while it validates as strict it generates a warning).

Does HTML::TreeBuilder have an option/attribute (via HTML::Element, HTML::Parser, etc.) that disables the XHTML style empty tags?

The only references I can find are about parsing rather than output. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $h = HTML::Element->new_from_lol(
            ['html',
                ['hr'],
                ['br'],
                ['img',    {src => 'pic.jpg'}],
            ],
);
print $h->as_HTML

__DATA__

output:

<html><hr /><br /><img src="pic.jpg" /></html>

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In reply to HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML4.01 empty elements by wfsp

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