Masking of entry fields formatting

is there any way to mask a field with a particular format. E.g. our national identity number (Social Security Number) in Peopleis in 99999-99999999-9 format and the Supplier's Tax Registration Number is in 999999-9 format.
Is it possible that we can define these format masks in Oracle EBS? Please note that some forms are Oracle Developer based and some are HTML based.
Has anyone done such personalizations?
-- GTA

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But any after-submit validations choke on the non-numeric characters in the field! Please don't tell me I have to a) create shadow items and/or b) replace() out the non-numeric characters in the validation.
After so many years and versions, why doesn't APEX have a simple, declarative, elegant solution to handle such a basic function?
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As described in the item help
"Select or enter a format mask. Note that format mask is applicable only to items of source type Database Column."
In my experience, and this goes for the great web experience, not just the application you're designing - I've found the most data entry fields avoid formatting.
Relevant information is often shown item labels.
Any occasional the business has specifically asked for formatting, I've taken the same approach as I've needed to for years - before web development (and every time you use the to_date/to_char functions for date conversions) - validate the information as per expectation. If you think the user will be adding punctuation to a numeric field, then you must validate accordingly.
This usually means adding TO_CHAR(value_entered, expected_format_mask) to your validation control, instead of presuming APEX will read the user's mind and know the content of that numeric field may not be numeric.
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Have a think about the various websites you visit personally - plane bookings, concerts, ebay, etc - how many expect entry to be purely numeric? My recollection is most, except maybe some credit card fields, but most use some sort of regular expression to sort that out. And you can tell the validation is coded respectively.
Generally, I reserve this sort of primping to reporting - even then it's made to be subtle - just like I'd prefer makeup to be ;-)
Most users just care about the data, not how it looks.
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