4. The method of claim 3 , wherein: the strings associated by the glossary data are words or phrases, the strings associated by the translation memory data are translation units comprising sentences and grammatically independent translation units, the user-specific translation data is stored in at least one of: a database, a comma-separated values file, or a translation memory exchange file, and the at least one temporary textual element is a unique textual or alphanumeric token.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein: the glossary data is configured to associate strings in the source language with strings in the target language; the translation memory data is configured to associate strings in the source language with strings in the target language; or the source-identification rule data comprises regular expressions for identifying strings in the source language.