in reply to Match on line, read backwards to opening xml tag then forward to closing tag

I usually use XML::XSH2 for XML manipulation. After fixing errors in your XML and wrapping it into a root node, I was able to find the corresponding Dataentry just with the following lines: 
open 937973.xml ;
for //Data[.='bbbbbb'] ls .. ;

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