One technique I often used is a simple HTML template with data tags wrapped inside %% quotes. Simple and effective. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;

# Initialize CGI variable
my $q = new CGI;

# Load HTML
my $html;
{
  local $/;
  $html = <DATA>;
}

# Format HTML using data callbacks
$html =~ s/%%(\w+)%%/&FormatHTML($1)/ge;

# Display the HTML
print $q->header, $html;
exit(0);

sub FormatHTML()
{
  my $tag = shift;
  if ($tag eq "TITLE") {
    return &FormatTitle();
  } elsif ($tag eq "TOC") {
    return &FormatToc();
  } elsif ($tag eq "BODY") {
    return &FormatBody();
  }
}

sub FormatTitle()
{
  return "HTML Sample";
}

sub FormatToc()
{
  return "<b>Table of Contents</b><br>";
}

sub FormatBody()
{
  return "<i>Sample text</i>";
}

__DATA__
<!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">
<head>
  <title>%%TITLE%%</title>
</head>
<body>
  %%TOC%%
  %%BODY%%
</body>
</html>

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