use CGI qw/:html4 -no_xhtml/; print $q->(-dtd=>'//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'); #### <"//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> #### print $q->(-dtd=>"'//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'");