If you are keen on diving into some XML you could also try AxKit.

If are not compelled to leave Perl out: just learn some XPath syntax and use XPathScript.

. Creating pages that have some fixed content is as easy(*) as writing your pages in some XML and having them transformed in HTML (and/or in any format you want) by a stylesheet

Ciao!
--bronto

(*) of course, you can read easy the way you like: serious or ironic :-)

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ;
}