Absolutely... The umbraco.library has several methods to allow you to do these exact things.
While editing the xslt, you can click the insert value of button at the top, click Get Extension, and choose the umbraco.library, and the desired method. You can then fill in the fields and get your results using the method built into umbraco...
Let me know if you need an example..
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