VACHAR column containing date and text
I have a temp table in which one of the columns has to be defined as a char. The purpose of this column is to contain all the begin dates of a rent term. However, the users want to display 'Commencement' for the first rent term, for the rest the dates formatted as 'MM/DD/YYYY'. When the data gets into the table it is going in as '01-FEB-08' for the all the terms other than the first term...hence that is how it comes out in the xml structure.
In my template i have the following code for the field: