13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the cell format object is used to render the cell.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for storing formatting information for at least one cell in a spreadsheet document described in a markup language, wherein the spreadsheet document includes a plurality of style objects, the method comprising: parsing the spreadsheet document to generate at least one display list of a cell format object for the at least one cell by: obtaining cell formatting information for the at least one cell from a master style object that stores master formatting information for the at least one cell; obtaining named style information for the at least one cell from a style name object that stores named styles for the at least one cell and references the cell master style object; obtaining cell specific formatting information for the at least one cell from a cell-specific style object that includes cell specific formatting information for the at least one cell and references the master style object, wherein the cell specific formatting information overrides master formatting information; generating combined cell formatting information for the at least one cell in the cell format object, wherein the combined cell formatting information in the cell format object comprises named styles for the at least one cell, cell-specific formatting information that has overridden formatting information in the master style object, and master formatting information that has not been overridden by the cell-specific formatting information, wherein the formatting information originally described in the master style object but overridden by the cell-specific information is not included in the combined cell formatting information for the cell format object; and storing the combined cell formatting information as the at least one display list of the cell format object; and rasterizing the at least one cell in a frame buffer using the stored at least one display list of the cell format object.