Seleccionar valores del campo XML en SQL Server 2008

Dado que el campo XML se llama 'xmlField'...

SELECT 
[xmlField].value('(/person//firstName/node())[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as FirstName,
[xmlField].value('(/person//lastName/node())[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as LastName
FROM [myTable]