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Originally Posted by Jon
The benefit to the xml.gz is that the file size is smaller. This is helpful for sites with many urls or sites that have low bandwidth for their hosting. In general however it is not necessary.
You don't want to have both the xml and the sitemap.xml.gz populated. You should use one or the other, only add one to your robots.txt, and make sure that file is specified properly in your Google webmasters account.
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Thanks Jon, very helpful.
Is it better to delete the file or open it and delete the content? (Generating the normal sitemap.xml again didn't take the content out of the .gz file.) It seems funny that it's okay to have an empty sitemap file, yet I dont want to mess things up for CDSEO.