I have no great answer for you, this is to me a generally unanswered question,
hard to do Solr with this sort of thing, I think you seem to understand it
properly.
There ARE some interesting new features in trunk (not 1.4) that may be
relevant, although to my perspective none of them provide
Yes, I saw something in the dev stream about compound types as well
which would also be useful (so in my example an occupation field could
comprise of multiple fields of different types) but these are up and
coming features. I suspect using multiple document types is probably the
best way for
