XML node value in TSQL

Better way of getting text from XML node in SQL Server

For years I've used the a simple . to get the text value from an XML node in SQL Server (in this case converting to integer)...

SELECT X.value('.','int')
FROM @XML.nodes('/data/id') AS X(X)

However, I've recently been informed that it's much better performance to use text()[1] instead...

SELECT X.value('text()[1]','int')
FROM @XML.nodes('/data/id') AS X(X)