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Perhaps not the sort of bone you want to chew on, but I would use one of the many existing template systems, with or without one of the website/application platforms, rather than write my own.

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Re^2: Help with proper construction of callable scalars from a Module, please.
by taint (Chaplain) on Nov 13, 2013 at 06:38 UTC
    Good advice, and thank you ig.

    I hadn't actually intended to actually "re-invent the wheel". But rather, simply wanted to eliminate repeatedly re-typing the same lines, file, after file. So this idea seemed a simple solution -- combine all those blocks of (x)HTML in a Module. Then simply call them with short lines. In short; a great deal less typing.

    As to "one of the many existing template systems"
    I've yet to find one I actually like. But to each their own. :)

    Best wishes, and thanks for the honest reply.

    --Chris

    #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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      Revized edition:

      Seems in my initial frustration with accomplishing such a simple task. I ultimately overcomplicated matters. :(
      I think the following get's it right:
      pageblocks.pm 

      use strict;

package pageblocks;

sub xmlheader {
    qq(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n);
}

sub xmldtd {
    qq(<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:
+//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; ch
+arset=utf-8" />\n);
}

1; # polygraph

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      and index.cgi 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -wT

# index.cgi

print "content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
use strict;
use lib ('./');
use pageblocks;

print pageblocks::xmlheader();
print pageblocks::xmldtd();
print "<body>
 ...
</body></html>";

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      A big thanks to GrandFather, Jenda, and Anonymous Monk, for their thoughtful feedback.

      --Chris

      #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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        Crap! Next time I'll use PREVIEW first.

        ...and a big thanks also to ig!

        --Chris

        #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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