I too, have used two template objects to solve this problem: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Template;
use Inline::Files;

my $skeleton = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => \*SKELETON);
my @page = (
   HTML::Template->new(filehandle => \*PAGE1),
   HTML::Template->new(filehandle => \*PAGE2),
);

for (@page) {
   $skeleton->param(body => $_->output);
   print $skeleton->output;
}

__SKELETON__
<html>
<body>
<tmpl_var body>
</body>
</html>

__PAGE1__
hello world

__PAGE2__
foo bar baz qux

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But, these days i prefer to use Template with it's ultra handy WRAPPER construct. I am sure that Template essentially has to do the same thing: load a seperate template and substitute values, but it does it for me. :) For example, all i need to do is create the skeleton (i'll call it skeleton.html) 
<html>
<head>
   <title>[% title %]</title>
</head>
<body>
   [% content %]
</body>
</html>

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And some pages: 
(page1.html)
[% WRAPPER skeleton.html title="Page 1" %]
hello world
[% END %]

-----------------------------------------------

(page2.html)
[% WRAPPER skeleton.html title="Page 2" %]
foo bar baz
[% END %]

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And i'm done. :)

jeffa

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In reply to Re: HTML::Template question. by jeffa
in thread HTML::Template question. by jdtoronto

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