How to create list of a View's column names and source

Question

Using SQL 2005, 2008, and 2012
How to create list of a View's column names and source. For the following example would like to @Print something like the following.  Does anyone already have some code to do this? I realize there are probably some gotchas, but the views that I am looking
at to use this follows the code snippet pattern below.
DBACCT.[Account Number]
dbo.ConvertDate(DBACDT). [Boarding Date]
DBXES.DBXES
CREATE VIEW [dbo].[v_ods_DBAL]
AS
SELECT DBACCT AS [Account Number], dbo.ConvertDate(DBACDT) AS [Boarding Date], DBXES
FROM dbo.ods_DBAL

Answer 1

The column information can be obtained from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view using logic like below
SELECT c.COLUMN_NAME,c.DATA_TYPE
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_NAME = c.TABLE_NAME
AND TABLE_TYPE='VIEW')
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188348.aspx
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