Implementing the Application Centric Approach
You build the XSLT transformation capacity into your application.
Java: Apache Xalan
There are several XSLT processors written in Java.
http://xml.apache.org/xalan
ASP: MSXML.dll
The September release of the Microsoft parser is supposed to bring it in compliance with the November 1999 W3C recommendation.
It also includes a server-safe component of the XMLHTTP object.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/msxmlprev.asp
PHP
PHP 4.0 has both SAX (via XT) and DOM (via Gnome) parsers
XSLT functions are available through add-ins
Stephen Li's PHP Sablotron extension
Wrapper classes for Sablotron extension functions
The CVS tree at php.net has builds which integrate Sablotron.
A php xpath module has been announced, but is in alpha status
http://www.subpop.com/~dietricha