content filters architecture

[shawn_a]

I was wondering if someone could offer some help on the architecture of content filters and its control structure.

I am trying to figure out how multiple content filters are supposed to work without a way to specify
sequence phases.

For example
I am using dynpages (of course) for components.
I am trying to make my own content filter.

My filter seems to process before dynpages.
So my content filter doesn't process dynpages output.

I have also noticed that the I18n search plugin shows the unprocessed dynpages tags in its results or news feeds, so a similar issue there.

Any ideas ?

On a similar note.
Is there a standardized syntax for content insertion or replacer plugins ?

{% pluginname: function args %} ?

I haven't really seen a design guide for plugins so these don't wind up being a bunch of hacks as opposed to an actual plugin system.

So far I have seen plugins that check if other plugins functions exists and handling exceptions for it. This doesn't seem very ideal situation.

Would it even be possible to make a content filter phase rule plugin, that lets you specify phase sequence order of content filters?