While you may want to avoid a "full blown" templating solution like Template Toolkit, there are various "weaker" templating flavours:

• Interpolation.pm - a nice hack which can be abused to be a close-to-the-metal templating sytem. It has no niceties like automagic HTML/URL encoding.
• HTML::Template - a very simplicistic templating system, geared towards production of HTML. Can escape HTML entities or values for use as URL strings. Comes as one .pm file, which makes installation trivial.
• Petal - a nice (x)HTML templating module that, in addition allows method calls on objects through the TAL syntax. It requires its input to be proper XHTML, and it is a bit slow even though it implements caching.
• Template Toolkit - a full templating system with its own templating language.

I've listed the templating systems in increasing order of features and I believe you should use HTML::Template, as it is very simplicistic but has enough features to be useful.

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