Index: lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/PostingsHighlighter.java
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--- lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/PostingsHighlighter.java	(revision 1457977)
+++ lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/PostingsHighlighter.java	(working copy)
@@ -237,16 +237,39 @@
    *         {@link IndexOptions#DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS}
    */
   public Map<String,String[]> highlightFields(String fields[], Query query, IndexSearcher searcher, TopDocs topDocs, int maxPassages) throws IOException {
+    final ScoreDoc scoreDocs[] = topDocs.scoreDocs;
+    int docids[] = new int[scoreDocs.length];
+    for (int i = 0; i < docids.length; i++) {
+      docids[i] = scoreDocs[i].doc;
+    }
+
+    return highlightFields(fields, query, searcher, docids, maxPassages);
+  }
+    
+  /**
+   * Highlights the top-N passages from multiple fields,
+   * for the provided int[] docids.
+   * 
+   * @param fields field names to highlight. 
+   *        Must have a stored string value and also be indexed with offsets.
+   * @param query query to highlight.
+   * @param searcher searcher that was previously used to execute the query.
+   * @param int[] docids containing the document IDs to highlight.
+   * @param maxPassages The maximum number of top-N ranked passages per-field used to 
+   *        form the highlighted snippets.
+   * @return Map keyed on field name, containing the array of formatted snippets 
+   *         corresponding to the documents in <code>topDocs</code>. 
+   *         If no highlights were found for a document, its value is <code>null</code>.
+   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurred during processing
+   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if <code>field</code> was indexed without 
+   *         {@link IndexOptions#DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS}
+   */
+  public Map<String,String[]> highlightFields(String fields[], Query query, IndexSearcher searcher, int[] docids, int maxPassages) throws IOException {
     final IndexReader reader = searcher.getIndexReader();
-    final ScoreDoc scoreDocs[] = topDocs.scoreDocs;
     query = rewrite(query);
     SortedSet<Term> queryTerms = new TreeSet<Term>();
     query.extractTerms(queryTerms);
 
-    int docids[] = new int[scoreDocs.length];
-    for (int i = 0; i < docids.length; i++) {
-      docids[i] = scoreDocs[i].doc;
-    }
     IndexReaderContext readerContext = reader.getContext();
     List<AtomicReaderContext> leaves = readerContext.leaves();
 
@@ -277,15 +300,15 @@
       Term terms[] = fieldTerms.toArray(new Term[fieldTerms.size()]);
       Map<Integer,String> fieldHighlights = highlightField(field, contents[i], bi, terms, docids, leaves, maxPassages);
         
-      String[] result = new String[scoreDocs.length];
-      for (int j = 0; j < scoreDocs.length; j++) {
-        result[j] = fieldHighlights.get(scoreDocs[j].doc);
+      String[] result = new String[docids.length];
+      for (int j = 0; j < docids.length; j++) {
+        result[j] = fieldHighlights.get(docids[j]);
       }
       highlights.put(field, result);
     }
     return highlights;
   }
-    
+
   private Map<Integer,String> highlightField(String field, String contents[], BreakIterator bi, Term terms[], int[] docids, List<AtomicReaderContext> leaves, int maxPassages) throws IOException {  
     Map<Integer,String> highlights = new HashMap<Integer,String>();
     
Index: lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestPostingsHighlighter.java
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--- lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestPostingsHighlighter.java	(revision 1457977)
+++ lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestPostingsHighlighter.java	(working copy)
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.PhraseQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Sort;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
@@ -465,4 +466,42 @@
     ir.close();
     dir.close();
   }
+
+  public void testSpecificDocIDs() throws Exception {
+    Directory dir = newDirectory();
+    IndexWriterConfig iwc = newIndexWriterConfig(TEST_VERSION_CURRENT, new MockAnalyzer(random()));
+    iwc.setMergePolicy(newLogMergePolicy());
+    RandomIndexWriter iw = new RandomIndexWriter(random(), dir, iwc);
+    
+    FieldType offsetsType = new FieldType(TextField.TYPE_STORED);
+    offsetsType.setIndexOptions(IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS);
+    Field body = new Field("body", "", offsetsType);
+    Document doc = new Document();
+    doc.add(body);
+    
+    body.setStringValue("This is a test. Just a test highlighting from postings. Feel free to ignore.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+    body.setStringValue("Highlighting the first term. Hope it works.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+    
+    IndexReader ir = iw.getReader();
+    iw.close();
+    
+    IndexSearcher searcher = newSearcher(ir);
+    PostingsHighlighter highlighter = new PostingsHighlighter();
+    Query query = new TermQuery(new Term("body", "highlighting"));
+    TopDocs topDocs = searcher.search(query, null, 10, Sort.INDEXORDER);
+    assertEquals(2, topDocs.totalHits);
+    ScoreDoc[] hits = topDocs.scoreDocs;
+    int[] docIDs = new int[2];
+    docIDs[0] = hits[0].doc;
+    docIDs[1] = hits[1].doc;
+    String snippets[] = highlighter.highlightFields(new String[] {"body"}, query, searcher, docIDs, 1).get("body");
+    assertEquals(2, snippets.length);
+    assertEquals("Just a test <b>highlighting</b> from postings. ", snippets[0]);
+    assertEquals("<b>Highlighting</b> the first term. ", snippets[1]);
+    
+    ir.close();
+    dir.close();
+  }
 }