change alt text on image and link href

Question

Hi all

I'm in the process of writing a site for multi languages so all the content, href links and alt text for the images is stored in a db in the format 

contentid        countrycode         pagecontent         contenttype

all this data is info is then stored in a dataset which is looped through for each page using the code below. however I think I need to case the a href id into something but have no idea what and because the <img doesnt have a closing </img it cant find it. 

for the images i did think about changing the <img tags to <asp:Image tags if this would help 

foreach (DataRow theRow in ds.Tables[0].Rows)

{

string control = theRow["ContentId"].ToString();

HtmlContainerControl ctrl = FindControlRecursive(this, control) as HtmlContainerControl;

if (ctrl != null)

{

   //Response.Write(theRow["ContentType"].ToString());

   //control.inn

   //Object objControl = (Object)control;

   //string control = "homeText";

   //HtmlContainerControl

   //HtmlContainerControl ctrl = FindControlRecursive(this, control) as HtmlContainerControl;

   if (theRow["ContentType"].ToString() == "text")

   {

ctrl.InnerHtml = theRow["PageContent"].ToString();

   }

   if (theRow["ContentType"].ToString() == "link")

   {

//ctrl.HRef = theRow["PageContent"].ToString();

//ctrl.NavigateUrl = theRow["PageContent"].ToString();

//neither work

   }

   if (theRow["ContentType"].ToString() == "alt")

   {

//never finds the control 

//i believe its because and image tag isnt a proper htmlcontainercontrol

//because it has not </img>

   }

}

}

private Control FindControlRecursive(Control Root, string Id)        

{            

    //if current control is the one to be searched for then return it            

    if (Root.ID == Id)                 

return Root;             

    //if not, call search on each sub control            

    foreach (Control Ctl in Root.Controls)            

    {                

Control FoundCtl = FindControlRecursive(Ctl, Id);                 

//Bubble the located control back up to original call if it is found                

if (FoundCtl != null)                     

   return FoundCtl;             

    }             

    //if nothing is found and no sub controls remain then return null for this branch            

    return null;         

}

thanks for any help or pointers