generate-id only works within <a> link?

<xsl:for-each select="procedure/section">
   <a href="#{generate-id(.)}">linktext</a>
   {generate-id(.)}
</xsl:for-each>

   <a href="#section54200192">linktext</a>
   {generate-id(.)}
   <a href="#section54526544">linktext</a>
   {generate-id(.)}

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