diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 327e260d03..941b316e22 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 sudo: false
 language: generic
+services:
+  - docker
+env:
+  - PERL_VERSION="5.30"
+  - PERL_VERSION="5.28"
+  - PERL_VERSION="5.24"
+  - PERL_VERSION="5.20"
+  - PERL_VERSION="5.16"
 addons:
   apt:
     packages:
@@ -8,7 +16,7 @@ addons:
       - libxml-libxslt-perl
 script:
 - xmllint --noout df.*.xml symbols.xml
-- perl ./codegen.pl | tee codegen-out.txt
+- docker run --rm -v $PWD:/xml -v $PWD/travis/run-codegen.bash:/run-codegen.bash -v $PWD/codegen-out.txt:/out.txt perl:${PERL_VERSION}-slim bash /run-codegen.bash
 - if grep -i error codegen-out.txt; then false; else true; fi
 notifications:
   email: false
diff --git a/travis/run-codegen.bash b/travis/run-codegen.bash
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..868018ab9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/run-codegen.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex -o pipefail
+export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
+cpan install XML::LibXML XML::LibXSLT
+perl /xml/codegen.pl | tee /out.txt