DGXT is an optimized software-based XSLT interpreter that is cross-platform and fully compliant with the current XSL specification. The XA35 XML Accelerator is a hardware-based solution that speeds XSLT, XPath, XSD (Schema validation) by 30X or more [...
ShoXS is a Shorter Syntax for XSL and this site provides some tools to read XSL files, convert and edit in ShoXS then convert back and save in XSL [Open Source, GPL].
Includes a Windows GUI that simplifies designing layouts for complex XML forms and a runtime Engine that merges a layout with XML data to produce a PDF via XSL-FO [Commercial].