Greetings, Monks.

First let me apologize. I know this is a "brain dead" question. But it appears that someone has switched my Thinking cap, for a Dunce cap today. For the life of me, I'm just drawing blanks.

Anyway. What I'm trying to do is simply create a simple portal/CMS arrangement. Where I place all of the commonly (repetitious) used stuff in a module -- say; pageblocks.pm. Then I simply call all the stuff that is common to all pages from the Module. eg; 

# pageblocks.pm
package pageblocks;

my $xmlheader=>
print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";
my $xmldtd=>
print "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \"ht
+tp://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;
+ charset=utf-8\" />\n";

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Then it's simply a matter of constructing a page thusly (index.cgi): 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use lib ('./');
require pageblocks;

print "content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";

$xmlheader;
$xmldtd;

<title>This is a stupid attempt to re-invent the wheel</title>
<meta name="description" content="What's worse -- I can't even figure 
+out the most simple part!!!" />
<meta name="keywords" content="yadda,yadda,yadda,..." />
</head>
<body>
 ...
</body></html>

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While this actually works. In my gut, I know I'm doing it incorrectly.

Would anyone care to throw me a bone?
Again, apologies for the "bone headed" request, and thank you for your indulgence.

--Chris

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

In reply to Help with proper construction of callable scalars from a Module, please. by taint

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