Add documentation on parsing life cycle and hooks #1860
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Pull Request
Problem
It can be hard to work out where to plugin extra functionality using the hooks. A specific example is reading configuration files.
See: #1843
See also: #1762 #1787 (comment)
Solution
Add a separate description of the processing life cycles and where the hooks fit in. This will be useful when discussions come up about adding more parsing affected hooks, and thinking about where config files can fit in.