title: OWL/RDF to UML Converter
body: <p>I'm new to the concept of OWL/RDF ontologies and thinking it would useful to be able to convert them to UML so I could then generate class skeletons using my IDE. Assuming this is a reasonable thing to do, can you please recommend an approach?</p>
  
  <p>I'm aware that there are OWL/RDF parsers <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html" rel="nofollow">like this one</a>, but I can't find any that will convert to UML.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>Based on the comments let me modify the question:</p>
  
  <p>When starting a new project based on an existing ontology is there a way to easily create skeleton classes as a starting point? I do not need to synchronize changes between the ontology and the classes - it is a one time setup that I expect will take a significant amount of copy and paste which strikes me as the wrong approach.</p>
  
  <p>If I'm not using ontologies correctly, can you please explain what their purpose is (if any) in designing class hierarchies?</p>
  
  <p>Here's an example of what I want to implement (except this is only 1 sensor and I need to implement several):</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn-20110628/#Smart_product_example" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn-20110628/#Smart_product_example</a></p>