diff --git a/src/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContext.php b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContext.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0071998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContext.php
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Netlogix\XmlProcessor\NodeProcessor\Context;
+
+class AbstractElementContext extends NodeProcessorContext
+{
+    private bool $selfClosing = false;
+
+    function setSelfClosing(bool $selfClosing): void
+    {
+        $this->selfClosing = $selfClosing;
+    }
+
+    function getSelfClosing(): bool
+    {
+        return $this->selfClosing;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/NodeProcessor/Context/CloseContext.php b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/CloseContext.php
index 6e4db29..d8516b1 100644
--- a/src/NodeProcessor/Context/CloseContext.php
+++ b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/CloseContext.php
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 
 namespace Netlogix\XmlProcessor\NodeProcessor\Context;
 
-class CloseContext extends NodeProcessorContext
+class CloseContext extends AbstractElementContext
 {
 }
diff --git a/src/NodeProcessor/Context/OpenContext.php b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/OpenContext.php
index 369410f..ee012a4 100644
--- a/src/NodeProcessor/Context/OpenContext.php
+++ b/src/NodeProcessor/Context/OpenContext.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 namespace Netlogix\XmlProcessor\NodeProcessor\Context;
 
-class OpenContext extends NodeProcessorContext
+class OpenContext extends AbstractElementContext
 {
     /**
      * @var array<string>
diff --git a/src/XmlProcessor.php b/src/XmlProcessor.php
index 885c686..703cc3b 100644
--- a/src/XmlProcessor.php
+++ b/src/XmlProcessor.php
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ class XmlProcessor
     /** @var iterable<bool> */
     private iterable $parserProperties;
 
+    private bool $skipCurrentNode = false;
+    private bool $selfClosing = false;
+
     /**
      * @param iterable<NodeProcessorInterface> $processors
      * @param iterable<bool> $parserProperties
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ public function __construct(
         $this->context = new XmlProcessorContext(
             $this->xml,
             $this->processors,
-            fn() => $this->skipNode()
+            fn() => $this->skipCurrentNode = true
         );
     }
 
@@ -75,13 +78,12 @@ public function processFile(string $filename): void
                     $this->eventCloseElement();
                     break;
                 case \XMLReader::ELEMENT:
-                    $selfClosing = $this->xml->isEmptyElement;
+                    $this->selfClosing = $this->xml->isEmptyElement;
                     $this->eventOpenElement();
-                    if ($this->shouldSkipNode()) {
-                        $this->skipNode();
-                        break;
+                    if ($skip = $this->shouldSkipNode()) {
+                        $this->xml->next();
                     }
-                    if ($selfClosing) {
+                    if ($skip || $this->selfClosing) {
                         $this->eventCloseElement();
                     }
                     break;
@@ -106,6 +108,10 @@ private function skipNode(): bool
 
     private function shouldSkipNode(): bool
     {
+        if ($this->skipCurrentNode) {
+            $this->skipCurrentNode = false;
+            return true;
+        }
         if ($this->skipNodes === NULL) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -186,6 +192,9 @@ private function popNodePath(): void
     private function createContext(string $contextClass): NodeProcessorContext
     {
         $context = new $contextClass($this->context, $this->nodePath);
+        if (method_exists($context, 'setSelfClosing')) {
+            $context->setSelfClosing($this->selfClosing);
+        }
         if (method_exists($context, 'setAttributes')) {
             $context->setAttributes($this->getAttributes());
         }
diff --git a/tests/Unit/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContextTest.php b/tests/Unit/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContextTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6d3c5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Unit/NodeProcessor/Context/AbstractElementContextTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Netlogix\XmlProcessor\Tests\Unit\NodeProcessor\Context;
+
+use Netlogix\XmlProcessor\NodeProcessor\Context\AbstractElementContext;
+use Netlogix\XmlProcessor\XmlProcessorContext;
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+
+class AbstractElementContextTest extends TestCase
+{
+    private function getCloseContext(
+        ?XmlProcessorContext $context = NULL,
+        array $nodePath = ['foo', 'bar']
+    ): AbstractElementContext
+    {
+        return new AbstractElementContext(
+            $context ?? $this->getMockBuilder(XmlProcessorContext::class)
+            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
+            ->getMock(),
+            $nodePath
+        );
+    }
+
+    public function test__construct(): void
+    {
+        $nodeProcessorContext = $this->getCloseContext();
+        self::assertInstanceOf(AbstractElementContext::class, $nodeProcessorContext);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider setSelfClosingDataProvider
+     */
+    function testSetSelfClosing($set, $expect): void
+    {
+        $nodeProcessorContext = $this->getCloseContext();
+        $nodeProcessorContext->setSelfClosing($set);
+        self::assertEquals($expect, $nodeProcessorContext->getSelfClosing());
+    }
+
+    function setSelfClosingDataProvider(): \Generator
+    {
+        yield [true, true];
+        yield [false, false];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider getSelfClosingDataProvider
+     */
+    function testGetSelfClosing($set, $expect): void
+    {
+        $nodeProcessorContext = $this->getCloseContext();
+        if ($set !== NULL) {
+            $nodeProcessorContext->setSelfClosing($set);
+        }
+        self::assertEquals($expect, $nodeProcessorContext->getSelfClosing());
+    }
+
+    function getSelfClosingDataProvider(): \Generator
+    {
+        yield [NULL, false];
+        yield [true, true];
+        yield [false, false];
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/Unit/XmlProcessorTest.php b/tests/Unit/XmlProcessorTest.php
index 73a8ee6..ec6ed6e 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/XmlProcessorTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/XmlProcessorTest.php
@@ -73,6 +73,36 @@ public function testProcessFile()
             [\XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES => true]
         );
         $xmlProcessor->processFile(__DIR__ . '/../Fixtures/XmlProcessorTest/test.xml');
+    }
+
+    public function testProcessFile_skipCurrentNode()
+    {
+        $nodeProcessor = $this->getMockForAbstractClass(NodeProcessorInterface::class);
+
+        $nodeProcessor->method('getSubscribedEvents')
+            ->will(
+                $this->returnCallback(fn() => yield from [
+                    'NodeType_' . \XMLReader::ELEMENT => function (OpenContext $context) {
+                        $context->getXmlProcessorContext()->skipCurrentNode();
+                        self::assertNotEquals('bar', $context->getCurrentNodeName());
+                    },
+                ])
+            );
+
+        $xmlProcessor = new XmlProcessor([
+            $nodeProcessor
+        ]);
+
+        $xmlProcessor->processFile(__DIR__ . '/../Fixtures/XmlProcessorTest/test.xml');
+
+        $xmlProcessor->setSkipNodes(['foo']);
+        $xmlProcessor->processFile(__DIR__ . '/../Fixtures/XmlProcessorTest/test.xml');
+
+        $xmlProcessor = new XmlProcessor(
+            [$nodeProcessor],
+            [\XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES => true]
+        );
+        $xmlProcessor->processFile(__DIR__ . '/../Fixtures/XmlProcessorTest/test.xml');
 
         if(!function_exists('str_end_with')){
             function str_end_with(string $nodePath, string $expected){
@@ -90,8 +120,9 @@ function testCheckNodePath(string $nodePath, string $expected, bool $result): vo
         self::assertSame(XmlProcessor::checkNodePath($nodePath, $expected), $result);
     }
 
-    public static function checkNodePathDataProvider(): iterable
+    public static function checkNodePathDataProvider(): \Generator
     {
+        yield ['', 'foo/bar', false];
         yield ['/foo/bar', 'foo/bar', true];
         yield ['/foo', 'foo/bar', false];
         yield ['foo', 'foo/bar', false];