We have been asked to make some of our DTA tags "external" by our translator (as they are merging with another DITA tag. 

For example, we would like <entry><uicontrol>Maintenance</uicontrol></entry> to have the <uicontrol> tags converted to placeholders and appear as "{1}Maintenance{2}". If it were written like this <entry>Maintenance</entry> it would appear as "Maintenance". For segments where the tag is inline, we would like to keep it as is, <p>To do access such and such feature, select <uicontro>Maintenance</uicontrol> on the home page.</p> to appear as "To access such and such feature, select {1}Maintenance{2} on the home page.". 

We are using WorldServer version 11.3.