Which version of CGI.pm do you have? With the latest version (2.89), I get this:

$ perl -MCGI=:standard -le 'print header, start_html'
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S"><head><title>Untitled Document</title>
</head><body>

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which looks right to me.

The list of changes includes this:

Version 2.81

  1. Removed extraneous slash from end of stylesheet tags generated by start_html in non-XHTML mode.
  2. Changed behavior of CGI::Carp with respect to eval{} contexts so that output behaves properly in mod_perl environments.
  3. Fixed default DTD so that it validates with W3C validator.
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: XHTML Strict? by davorg
in thread XHTML Strict? by peschkaj

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