diff --git a/src/Docfx.Common/XHtmlWriter.cs b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XHtmlWriter.cs
similarity index 97%
rename from src/Docfx.Common/XHtmlWriter.cs
rename to src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XHtmlWriter.cs
index cfd5798eff9..7ed0ba882dc 100644
--- a/src/Docfx.Common/XHtmlWriter.cs
+++ b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XHtmlWriter.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 namespace Docfx.Common;
 
-public class XHtmlWriter : XmlWriter
+class XHtmlWriter : XmlWriter
 {
     private static HashSet<string> _voidElements;
     private string _currentElement;
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ public class XHtmlWriter : XmlWriter
 
     public XHtmlWriter(TextWriter writer)
     {
-        _writer = Create(writer);
+        _writer = Create(writer, new() { OmitXmlDeclaration = true });
         // void element (ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html)
         _voidElements = new HashSet<string> { "area", "base", "br", "col", "command", "embed", "hr", "img", "input", "keygen", "link", "meta", "param", "source", "track", "wbr" };
     }
diff --git a/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlComment.cs b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlComment.cs
index 0912c5beae6..823e7a92c12 100644
--- a/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlComment.cs
+++ b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlComment.cs
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ private XmlComment(string xml, XmlCommentParserContext context)
         }
 
         // Transform triple slash comment
-        var doc = XmlCommentTransformer.Transform(xml);
+        xml = XmlCommentTransformer.Transform(xml);
+        var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace | LoadOptions.SetLineInfo);
 
         _context = context;
 
@@ -139,9 +140,9 @@ private void ResolveCode(XDocument doc, XmlCommentParserContext context)
                 continue;
             }
 
-            var indent = ((IXmlLineInfo)node).LinePosition - 2;
+            var indent = new string(' ', ((IXmlLineInfo)node).LinePosition - 2);
             var (lang, value) = ResolveCodeSource(node, context);
-            value = TrimEachLine(value ?? node.Value, new(' ', indent));
+            value = TrimEachLine(value ?? node.Value, indent);
             var code = new XElement("code", value);
 
             if (node.Attribute("language") is { } languageAttribute)
@@ -155,7 +156,18 @@ private void ResolveCode(XDocument doc, XmlCommentParserContext context)
             }
 
             code.SetAttributeValue("class", $"lang-{lang}");
-            node.ReplaceWith(new XElement("pre", code));
+
+            if (node.PreviousNode is null)
+            {
+                // Xml writer formats <pre><code> with unintended identation
+                // when there is no preceeding text node.
+                // Prepend a text node with the same indentation to force <pre><code>.
+                node.ReplaceWith($"\n{indent}", new XElement("pre", code));
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                node.ReplaceWith(new XElement("pre", code));
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlCommentTransformer.cs b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlCommentTransformer.cs
index 1ba4d4ae170..40a21f10b6d 100644
--- a/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlCommentTransformer.cs
+++ b/src/Docfx.Dotnet/Parsers/XmlCommentTransformer.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 namespace Docfx.Dotnet;
 
-internal static class XmlCommentTransformer
+static class XmlCommentTransformer
 {
     private static readonly XslCompiledTransform _transform;
 
@@ -25,13 +25,12 @@ static XmlCommentTransformer()
         _transform.Load(reader, xsltSettings, new XmlUrlResolver());
     }
 
-    public static XDocument Transform(string xml)
+    public static string Transform(string xml)
     {
-        using var ms = new MemoryStream();
-        using var writer = new XHtmlWriter(new StreamWriter(ms));
+        using var ms = new StringWriter();
+        using var writer = new XHtmlWriter(ms);
         XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace);
         _transform.Transform(doc.CreateNavigator(), writer);
-        ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
-        return XDocument.Load(ms, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace | LoadOptions.SetLineInfo);
+        return ms.ToString();
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/Docfx.Dotnet.Tests/XmlCommentUnitTest.cs b/test/Docfx.Dotnet.Tests/XmlCommentUnitTest.cs
index 3ddc6820594..08a40e9ce7e 100644
--- a/test/Docfx.Dotnet.Tests/XmlCommentUnitTest.cs
+++ b/test/Docfx.Dotnet.Tests/XmlCommentUnitTest.cs
@@ -22,6 +22,25 @@ public static void SeeLangword()
         Verify("<see langword=\"undefined-langword\" />", "<code>undefined-langword</code>");
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public static void ParaNewLine()
+    {
+        Assert.Equal(
+            """
+            a
+            <p>b</p>
+            <p>c</p>
+            """,
+            XmlComment.Parse("""
+                <summary>
+                a
+                <para>b</para>
+                <para>c</para>
+                </summary>
+                """).Summary,
+            ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public static void Issue8122()
     {
@@ -152,6 +171,35 @@ public void ExternalCodeBlockXaml()
             ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
     }
 
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("<example><code source='Example.cs' region='SDK_CustomProcessor' /></example>")]
+    [InlineData("""
+        <example>
+          <code source='Example.cs' region='SDK_CustomProcessor' />
+        </example>
+        """)]
+    public void Issue9462(string input)
+    {
+        var commentModel = XmlComment.Parse(input, new()
+        {
+            ResolveCode = _ =>
+                """
+                #region SDK_CustomProcessor
+
+                using System;
+                using System.Collections.Generic;
+                #endregion
+                """
+        });
+        Assert.Equal(
+            """
+            <pre><code class="lang-cs">using System;
+            using System.Collections.Generic;</code></pre>
+            """,
+            commentModel.Examples.Single(),
+            ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public static void MarkdownCodeBlock()
     {